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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 09:34:07 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4effuf$4m1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960124.7A06650.E10D@obscurity.pd.mcs.net>
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- In article <19960124.7A06650.E10D@obscurity.pd.mcs.net>,
- Eric Szulczewski <ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> wrote:
- >
- >In a message dated 01-20-96 14-15 George Noel writes:
- >
- >GN> You were crapping on the A1200,
- >
- >How appropriate, because that's exactly what I think it is: crap.
-
- Crap that once was heralded as the most powerful home computer with the
- best price on the market? In todays market, sure it is lacking but that
- is why AT are putting out the A1200+
-
- >GN> it is an Amiga and it need not be put down like you have been doing.
- >
- >In other words, you're a very sensitive 1200 owner and I'm impugning
- >your masculinity by denigrating it. Find another penis substitute,
-
- Actually I am not even an A1200 owner though I do have experience with
- and knowledge of the A1200.
-
- >George. I'm going to go on criticizing the 1200 until its engineering
- >quirks are worked out, which will be never.
-
- The A1200+ could possibly be much better but the current A1200 will never
- be changed. Why are you crapping on this machine anyways? You say you
- own an A2000, wouldn't it be much more wise for you to upgrade to a more
- reasonably priced A4000t (when they are available) then downgrade
- (expansion wise) to an A1200? Sure the A1200 stock is out of date now
- and has some quirks.. this argument will be moot ayways when the A1200+
- comes out... but more then likely you will find something new to crap on
- as that seems to be the type of person you are.
-
- >
- >GN> If you have no use for it or find it lacking, doesn't mean everyone will.
- >
- >And if they're satisfied with a stock 1200, more's the pity.
-
- Who HAS been happy with ANY stock version of an Amiga? The Hard Drive
- option on some of them was a bit better but normally you had to add a
- second floppy drive at least, add 1 - 2 more MEGs of memory at least, add
- a Hard Drive if it didn't come with one and you needed it/price was right
- (in the past) and in some cases add a new CPU to increase performance.
- This again is all depending on what the buyer is using the computer for..
- not everyone needs killer machines. For the people who bought the A1200,
- at least they DO have a computer and at least they DO have an Amiga, if
- everything was the way you wanted it on the A1200, it would reduce the
- amount of people buying it due to the increased cost to produce it. At
- least when they HAVE the computer, they are more inclinded to upgrade it
- when they can to make it better instead of ditching it and buying a whole
- new/different computer system to do the same sorts of things. With the
- new approach of marketing the A1200 via the surfer pack, this is a great
- low end, minimum technology one would use/need to get on the web/internet
- that a lot of people could go for instead of waiting to buy a more
- expensive PC to do the same thing.
-
- >
- >GN> Without that A1200 and A4000t, the Amiga wouldn'tbe where it is today.
- >
- >You mean totally unknown to the wider computer community? Stuck in a
- >very narrow niche market? With "defenders" wanting to sell it in tire
-
- That is not due to the machine but due to its owners.. Commodore. The
- selling in a tire store remark, I wouldn't care where they were selling
- them as long as they got exposure to the general public.
-
- I meant without the A1200 and A4000t there would be no new video toaster
- for example when it came out, there would be less Amigas and Amigans out
- there and the interest in the technology would have faded to the point
- that no would would want to buy it to continue developing it thus no need
- for the Team Amiga that you claim to be a part of.
-
- >GN> I wasn't saying you were totally anti-amiga but your opinions certainly
- >GN> sound like it.
- >
- >Just because I go after two of the seven computers in the line? You
-
- Because you are going after 1 of the 2 current Amiga models in
- production, one of which, the one you are crapping on, is the one (until
- the A1200+ comes out) that will be able to be afforded by the masses to
- do an adequate job as an entry level computer and will get Amigas and the
- name into the homes faster then an A4000t and the future Power Amiga would.
-
- I bet if you were a salesmen in an Escom shop, you would be one of those
- ones that would rather sell someone a PC over an A1200 even if you were
- hired to sell Amigas.
-
- -=*George*=-
-
- P.S. Jesus Gary, is he like this all the time? :)
-
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-